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antique lovers, antique road show, Antiques Week Spring show 2015, best kept garage sales, biggest antique show in america, Carmine, Fayettville, Junk Gypsies, Rehab addict, restoration, Round Top, victorian inspired, vintage design, Warrenton
For those of us die hard junk’o’rama, salvage, restoration, estate sale vixens, antique store scrounging, pinterest posting, houzz searching, dumpster diving, milk painting, tarnish polishing, southern belles (quick breath).. who love finding what others might call “clutter”….
In Texas, we dont call it clutter, we call it GOLD. Im talking about all things old, antiqued, salvaged, restored, or restorable. Those of us who have that bug, that virus, that love, that passion, that infection called: “antique freak”, we know Antiques Week in Texas is where to be. We all faithfully watch our yearly calendar for the twice a year: Warrenton – Round Top Antiques Week. Why even the most famous shabby chic, TV host and designer Rachel Ashwell and her fans follow and attend this event
Yours truly and my faithful friends pictured below, also partake with the masses of sundress, boot wearing, junk gypsies who travel the miles to this little slice of heaven.. why even the real Junk Gypsies from the ever popular TV show on HGTV, Junk Gypsies have a store here (where else do you think they got started ??? Why from years of attending and buying at #antiques week of course!)
Wonder why you havent heard of it yet, well it (used to be) a little known Texas secret, although not surpirsing I think one certain famous Shabby Chic lady, Ms. Rachel Ashwell actually brought lots of National attention to the famous Antiques week. Especially after she decided to start calling Round Top Texas her home away from home and opend up a raelly amazing B&B here, called The Prairie By Rachel Ashwell, which you can tour with this quick link. Even more inspiring is her own story of how when she thought she had found Texas, in 2010 texas really “found” her, by way of Round Top Texas adn the opening of her life long dream, her passion, her heart and her romance at The Prairie, Rachel’s story of her romance with Texas (click her to read about it)
So what did I buy for BIG GIRL (my 1920’s restoration project that you can read about here on this blog about Big Girl- 1920 house restoration )
It might be more about what I didnt buy.. well Im a bit behind on the remodel of Big Girl, so storage is an issue. I made sure to take notes of my favorite things, snapping pics of ideas and items Ill be sure to look for at the Fall Antiques Week show, in September 2015. But for now my big purchase is this antique prayer bench out of a church. We just couldn’t help ourselves, we were drawn to the prayer bench and quickly knelt to confess our sin: our love of Antiques Week ! I cant wait to have this bench on the (soon to be) screened in porch.
And here are a few things that I bought, the rest will be a secret till I finish the remodel of Big Girl and I make her BIG reveal here :
The General Store sign will look great above the pantry door ( which will be a great old white antique screen door I bought, but didn’t take a picture of (sorry).
I”d say Antiques Week was a success ! We can ddrink to that !